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Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2003 12:10:55 -0800
From: Andrew Morton <akpm@digeo.com>
To: Steven Cole <elenstev@mesatop.com>
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Subject: Re: 2.5.65-mm2
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Steven Cole <elenstev@mesatop.com> wrote:
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> On Wed, 2003-03-19 at 02:21, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > 
> > http://www.zip.com.au/~akpm/linux/patches/2.5/2.5.65/2.5.65-mm2/
> > 
> 
> I am seeing a significant degradation of interactivity under load with
> recent -mm kernels.  The load is dbench on a reiserfs file system with
> increasing numbers of clients.  The test machine is single PIII, IDE,
> 256MB memory, all kernels PREEMPT.

(This email brought to you while running dbench 128 on ext3)

There's a pretty big reiserfs patch in -mm.  Are you able to whip up
an ext2 partition and see if that displays the same problem?


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Steven Cole <elenstev@mesatop.com> wrote:
>
> On Wed, 2003-03-19 at 02:21, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > 
> > http://www.zip.com.au/~akpm/linux/patches/2.5/2.5.65/2.5.65-mm2/
> > 
> 
> I am seeing a significant degradation of interactivity under load with
> recent -mm kernels.  The load is dbench on a reiserfs file system with
> increasing numbers of clients.  The test machine is single PIII, IDE,
> 256MB memory, all kernels PREEMPT.

(This email brought to you while running dbench 128 on ext3)

There's a pretty big reiserfs patch in -mm.  Are you able to whip up
an ext2 partition and see if that displays the same problem?

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